| Space probes today and tomorrow | |||||||
| Brugge | Gunter | N1 | N2 | USA | EU | Japan | Russia |
| Target | Probe | Country | Year Start | Weight [kg] | Price Probe [mil.USD] | Price Mission [mil.USD] | Note |
| Moon | LRO | USA | 2009 | 1 900 | 500 | orbiter | |
| GRAIL | USA | 2011 | 350 | 380 | 2 orbiters | ||
| LADEE | USA | 2012 | 130 | 80 | orbiter | ||
| Chang'e 2 | China | 2010 | orbiter | ||||
| Luna Glob | Russia | 2012 | 2 320 | orbiter + penetrators + landers | |||
| Chandrayaan 2 | India+Russia | 2013 | 2 650 | orbiter + lander + rover | |||
| Chang'e 3 | China | 2013 | lander + rover | ||||
| Mars | Mars Odyssey | USA | 2001 | 720 | 170 | 300 | orbiter |
| Mars Express | EU | 2003 | 1 120 | 200 | orbiter | ||
| Spirit | USA | 2003 | 1 060 | 310 | 420 | rover 180 kg | |
| Opportunity | USA | 2003 | 1 060 | 310 | 420 | rover 180 kg | |
| MRO | USA | 2005 | 2 180 | 450 | 720 | orbiter | |
| Phobos Grunt | Russia | 2011 | 11 000 LEO | 100 | return with sample 200 g | ||
| Yinghuo | China | 2011 | 110 | orbiter | |||
| MSL | USA | 2011 | 3 400 | 1 600 | 2 400 | rover 870 kg | |
| MAVEN | USA | 2013 | 480 | orbiter | |||
| ExoMars… | EU+USA | ? | orbiter + ...? | ||||
| MSR | USA+EU | 2020 | 2 x 4000 | 6 000 | return with sample 500 g | ||
| Venus | Venus Express | EU | 2005 | 1 270 | 100 | 250 | orbiter |
| Akatsuki | Japan | 2010 | 500 | orbiter | |||
| Ikaros | Japan | 2010 | 310 | solar sail 20 m | |||
| Venera-D | Russia | ? | orbiter + balloons + lander | ||||
| Mercury | Messenger | USA | 2004 | 1 130 | 290 | 430 | orbiter |
| BepiColombo | EU+Japan | 2014 | 2 x 1200 | 900 | 2 orbiters | ||
| Sun | Wind | USA | 1994 | 1 270 | orbiter, special orbit, sun's wind | ||
| Spitzer | USA | 2003 | 1 000 | 800 | orbiter, Earth trail, infrared radiation | ||
| STEREO | USA | 2006 | 2 x 620 | 550 | 2 orbiters, Earth trail | ||
| Kepler | USA | 2009 | 1 050 | 600 | orbiter, Earth trail, finding planets | ||
| SIM | USA | ? | orbiter, Earth trail, finding planets | ||||
| Sentinels | USA | ? | 4 orbiters | ||||
| Solar Probe | USA | ? | 500 | 750 | flyby | ||
| Solar Orbiter | EU | ? | 1 300 | orbiter | |||
| LISA | EU+USA | ? | 3 x 460 | 3 orbiters, Earth trail, gravitation | |||
| point L1 | SOHO | EU+USA | 1995 | 1 870 | orbiter, observing of Sun | ||
| ACE | USA | 1997 | 780 | orbiter, sun and cosmic radiation | |||
| Lisa Pathfinder | EU+USA | 2012 | 1 900 | 300 | orbiter, test for mission LISA | ||
| point L2 | WMAP | USA | 2001 | 840 | orbiter, temperature differencies | ||
| Herschel | EU | 2009 | 3 400 | 1 100 | orbiter, diameter 3.5 m, infrared rad. | ||
| Planck | EU | 2009 | 1 950 | 700 | orbiter, cosmic radiation | ||
| Gaia | EU | 2012 | 2 000 | 400 | orbiter, position differencies | ||
| JWST | USA+EU | 2014 | 6 200 | 1 600 | 4 500 | orbiter, diameter 6.5 m, infrared rad. | |
| comets | Rosetta | EU | 2004 | 3 000 | 1 000 | orbiter+lander, Churyumov Geras. | |
| Stardust - NExT | USA | - | 380 | - | 20 | flyby Tempel 1 (Stardust) | |
| Epoxi | USA | - | 370 | - | 40 | flyby Hartley 2 (Deep Impact) | |
| asteroids | Dawn | USA | 2007 | 1 220 | 360 | 450 | orbiter Vesta 2011, Ceres 2015 |
| Hayabusa 2 | Japan | 2013 | return with sample | ||||
| Jupiter | Juno | USA | 2011 | 840 | orbiter | ||
| Saturn | Cassini | USA+EU | 1997 | 5 700 | 2 500 | orbiter + descent module Huygens | |
| and further | Voyager 1 | USA | 1977 | 720 | 900 | flyby Jupiter, Saturn, distance 100 AU | |
| Voyager 2 | USA | 1977 | 720 | 900 | flyby …,Uran, Neptun, distance 90 AU | ||
| New Horizons | USA | 2006 | 470 | 550 | 800 | flyby Pluto in year 2015 | |